A Quick Tip and a Name Change

There’s a photo here somewhere of some cute little colored LED lights that were designed to be clipped to your bike spokes to create dazzling light displays and aid in night time visibility. That’s a decent use, I guess, if kids even rode bikes anymore. Amazingly, the concept has been totally repurposed for camping safety!

See, the spoke clips also clip on very nicely to the guylines coming off your tent. Slap a few on (heck, you can grab a 4 pack for less than $10! at Walmart online) and turn them on at night time and you will NEVER trip over your tent lines again! Personally, I find them to be more enjoyable than wrapping a whole line in a neon pool noodle and for added fun, you can buy two red ones, hook ‘em side by side, and scare the little one’s by saying it’s the peering eyes of the Wolfman!

OK, now that the tip is out of the way, it’s time for a touch of housekeeping. As you may have noticed, I’ve changed the name of the newsletter to something that seems a bit more… me. Every YouTube video I’ve done has ended with the sign off of “Happy Trails”. I love it. I am, afterall, an outdoorsy wandering fool. My trails are always happy and I hope yours are, too! For that reason, we’ve become Happy Trails Tribune. I love the sound of it, I love the messaging in it and I love humoring myself with the personally sarcastic notion that I’m on par with other great periodicals!

If you’ve not caught one of these (not quite brilliant) YouTube videos, you’re definitely missing out.

Here is my poorly edited VLOG: https://www.youtube.com/@ShineAndMallows

And here, we’re sticking to outdoor gear reviews: https://www.youtube.com/@moonshineandmarshmallows

I’ve also got this delightful newsletter, an Instagram account and even a Facebook! The links are around here somewhere. I won’t throw everything at you all at once.

As always, thanks for indulging me and until we meet again…

Happy Trails!

-Seth